Manifolding sales-pad.



No. 638,288. Patented Dec. 5, I899. G. 0. SHUUP & W. N. BULLER.

MANIFOLDING SALES PAD.

(Application filed Dec. 5, 1898,

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GEORGE O. SHOUP AND WILLIAM N. BOLLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO THE AUTOGRAPHIO REGISTER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MANIFOLDING SALES-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 638,288, dated December 5, 1899.

Applice filed December 5,1898. Serial No. 698,403. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE O. SHOUP and WVILLIAM N-. BOLLER, citizens of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Art of Manifold Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the adjustment of carbonorink paper or other transfer material for use in connection with an original manifolding book or pad, salesbook, check-book, or other duplicating or manifolding device. To accomplish this, an adjustable carbon-cylinder is attached to any side of the book or pad and is so constructed that the carbon or other transfer material may be drawn out or rolled up at pleasure and will always lie smooth and on a level with the paper, whether the book or pad is new and thick or used until it has become very thin, after a number of leaves have been torn out. In this class of device it is customary to call the piece or part of paper on which the original entry is made the original, the one to which the original entry is transferred by hand-pressure by means of carbon or other transfer material the duplicate, and the third the triplicatc,and so on.

This improvement in this class of devices is designed for use in connection with any duplicating, triplicating, or manifolding device of whatever nature, whether it be a book, pad, autographic register, or any device for autographicallyregistering impressions or duplicating or manifolding the same.

The annexed drawings used as a basis for .this specification are intended merely to show a longitudinal section of the cylinder, showing the mechanical construction of the interior of this particular device for embodying Fig. 3 is a longitudinal our improvement.

section of pad with our improvementattached. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of Fig. 3 at m at, showing the position of carbon-cylinder and carbon or ink paper as it is applied to full pad. Fig. 5 is a similar section illustrating the carbon in use when pad is thin or comparatively used up.

The same letters of reference denote corresponding points in the several figures.

A represents a hollow cylinder or covered trough made of metal or any other suitable material held in place bya base H, Fig. 2, from the ends of which turn up two standards h h, through which pass into the heads of the cylinder or ends of the trough two screws 6 E.

The top of cylinder or cover of trough a is hinged at back i i and when shut leaves a small slot the entire length of cylinder, as indicated in Figs. 1, 4:, and 5 by the letters 7t 7s. The slot is enlarged along the line 1 0 for 70 convenience of opening. WVhen opened, a roll of carbon-paper may easily be inserted and the cylinder held in place by the thumb-screw E and as easily removed. The carbon-paperc is then unrolled, preferably by drawing across the edge of top a at 7c 7i) when top a is closed, (thus taking any curl out of the paper,) and laid over the pad'O. This cylinder can be revolved upon its axis c E by placing the hands upon the corrugated heads of the cyl- 8o inder B B and turning same. By this means opening 76 70 can be easily changed from top of pad 0 to bottom or to any point midway between, so as to automatically correspond to the level of the pad, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The letterf refers to a form of clamp for holding the pad here described, and g refers to a board used as a basis in connection with this form of holder.

The shape or mechanical construction of the 0 carbon-receptacle may be changed so as to admit of any other movement or adjustment as may seem most practicable, the accompanying drawings merely showing one of many forms which have been found useful, and the materials for making same may be of any kind which may be found serviceable. So, also, are the method and place of attaching the cylinder or receptacle optional.

Having fully described our invention and too illustrated the use of same, we claim as new carbon-sheet may be adjustably arranged to and desire to secure by Letters Patent lie fiat on a pile of leaves held to the base. IO

In a manifoldin device the combination with a base, of a receptat zle having a slot gn through which a carbon-sheet may be drawn, J

said receptacle being adjustably mounted, Witnesses: the adjustment of the receptacle carrying the WALTER O. SHOUP, slot toward and from the base, whereby the WM. J ACKSON. 

